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| Chain of Ponds Lake, Maine, 30 minutes from home, 8am |
Marie and I spent a wonderful time last week at the Sebasco Harbor Resort, in Sebasco Estates, Maine. It was a beautiful morning when we left home, crossing the US border at Coburn Gore and following route 27 past the Chain of Ponds Lake, through Farmington, and on towards Augusta. Sebasco Resort is on the Phippsburg Peninsula, a half an hour drive south from Bath, and was originally a playground for the rich and famous in its heyday of the 30s and 40s. It hasn't seemed to have changed much over the past 80 years and still keeps it's pure Maine charm : boat cruises aboard the old Ruth, canoeing and kayaking, tennis and golf, hiking trails and great food. We mostly had the place to ourselves what with school back in and summer almost over but the weather was warm and sunny - a typical early September day by the Atlantic. We swam in their huge salt water swimming pool, played croquet, canoed on Wattuh Lake with the gulls and Canada geese, hiked up through a pine forest to Mount Merritt for a great view of the Resort and harbor and watched the sun set from the Pilot House restaurant. When we left the next morning we headed to Bath for the day to explore the "city of ships" on the Kennebec River....
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| our room |
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| outside the lodge |
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| lunch on the patio, Ledges Pub |
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| Beautiful pool (73 degrees) warmed only by the sun |
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| view from the pool |
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| Marie on jetty, with lighthouse |
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| Canoeing, Wattuh Lake, Sebasco Harbor Resort |
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| Poster from 1961 |
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| view of Resort from above |
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| Merritt Mountain, view of Resort |
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| Sunset from Pilot House Restaurant and the "Ruth" |
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| Grilled water salad |
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| Fresh local oysters |
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| Marie, jetty and boats |
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| Next morning, off to Bath! |
